Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,549 6,317 7,186
As % of all contract jobs in England 19.07% 23.15% 19.59%
As % of the General category 34.50% 36.27% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,427 4,253 4,999
10th Percentile £360 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 114 224
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.44 £13.31
25th Percentile £19.69 £20.90 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.13 £35.95 £32.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% +10.11% +6.15%
75th Percentile £57.62 £64.69 £38.12
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.88 £69.68
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £32.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year +30.15% +1.20% +4.42%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 24,783 17,415 21,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.27% 63.81% 57.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,939 11,170 13,429
10th Percentile £313 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -3.70% -2.96%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,810 895 1,709
10th Percentile £14.35 £13.25 £13.23
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £33.06 £27.28 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.19% -19.60% +11.10%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.22 £32.90
% change year-on-year +19.42% -17.27% +7.71%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,129 £575 -4.17% 4,165
North of England 0 1,315 £500 +7.53% 867
South East 0 732 £500 -4.76% 982
North West +3 692 £475 +5.56% 452
Midlands +1 668 £500 +9.89% 486
Yorkshire 0 574 £525 +7.69% 311
West Midlands +1 494 £500 - 275
South West -4 384 £525 -4.55% 778
East of England +5 210 £528 -6.22% 264
East Midlands 0 166 £488 +12.72% 209
North East -15 50 £500 +13.96% 111
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 295 (3.45%) Confluence
2 208 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 79 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 68 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 49 (0.57%) Apache
6 42 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.34%) SAS
8 28 (0.33%) CMS
9 24 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.18%) CICS
11 14 (0.16%) IIS
12 13 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 12 (0.14%) Ethereum
14 11 (0.13%) Camunda
14 11 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.082%) Appian
16 6 (0.070%) Hyperledger
17 5 (0.058%) WebLogic
18 4 (0.047%) HCL Notes
18 4 (0.047%) WordPress
Applications
1 457 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 183 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 157 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 144 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
5 104 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 58 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 37 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.058%) Sketch
9 4 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.047%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.047%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.047%) Trello
10 3 (0.035%) Notion
11 2 (0.023%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.023%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
11 2 (0.023%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.023%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 323 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 111 (1.30%) NetSuite
3 101 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
4 87 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
5 77 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
6 68 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 51 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
8 49 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
9 46 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
10 42 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
11 40 (0.47%) Aladdin
12 36 (0.42%) SAP FI
13 30 (0.35%) Workday HCM
14 28 (0.33%) SAP CO
15 27 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
16 26 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
16 26 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
17 23 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
17 23 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
18 21 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,356 (15.86%) Azure
2 995 (11.64%) AWS
3 579 (6.77%) Power Platform
4 442 (5.17%) GCP
5 290 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
6 289 (3.38%) SaaS
7 251 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
8 239 (2.80%) GitHub
9 193 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
10 177 (2.07%) Entra ID
10 177 (2.07%) Snowflake
11 135 (1.58%) Serverless
12 114 (1.33%) Amazon S3
13 98 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
13 98 (1.15%) Power Automate
14 93 (1.09%) dbt
15 92 (1.08%) OCI
16 89 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
17 88 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
18 87 (1.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 165 (1.93%) Firewall
2 133 (1.56%) Network Security
3 82 (0.96%) VPN
4 78 (0.91%) DNS
5 59 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 51 (0.60%) WAN
7 42 (0.49%) BGP
8 36 (0.42%) SSL
9 35 (0.41%) DHCP
9 35 (0.41%) LAN
10 31 (0.36%) HTTP
11 29 (0.34%) Multicast
11 29 (0.34%) OSPF
12 23 (0.27%) MPLS
13 22 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
13 22 (0.26%) Internet
14 18 (0.21%) VLAN
15 17 (0.20%) Wireless
16 16 (0.19%) DMZ
16 16 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 494 (5.78%) Power BI
2 252 (2.95%) SQL Server
3 233 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 169 (1.98%) Metadata
5 164 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 150 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 130 (1.52%) Tableau
8 120 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 78 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 74 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
11 67 (0.78%) Oracle Database
12 63 (0.74%) Big Data
13 59 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 51 (0.60%) MongoDB
15 49 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
16 47 (0.55%) Power Query
17 45 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 44 (0.51%) Delta Lake
19 42 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
20 38 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 610 (7.14%) JIRA
2 224 (2.62%) Git
3 156 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 90 (1.05%) GitLab
5 54 (0.63%) JUnit
6 46 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 41 (0.48%) Selenium
8 27 (0.32%) Postman
8 27 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 23 (0.27%) ERwin
9 23 (0.27%) REST Assured
9 23 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 23 (0.27%) Visual Studio
10 21 (0.25%) Maven
11 20 (0.23%) MLflow
12 17 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 17 (0.20%) TeamCity
13 16 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
13 16 (0.19%) Zephyr
14 15 (0.18%) Gradle
General
1 2,501 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 1,616 (18.90%) Banking
3 1,182 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
4 489 (5.72%) Public Sector
5 399 (4.67%) Legal
6 341 (3.99%) Financial Institution
7 324 (3.79%) Investment Banking
8 316 (3.70%) Front Office
9 296 (3.46%) Retail
10 294 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
11 221 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
12 204 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
13 159 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 159 (1.86%) Local Government
14 152 (1.78%) Manufacturing
15 142 (1.66%) Billing
16 138 (1.61%) General Ledger
17 132 (1.54%) Marketing
18 127 (1.49%) Law
19 119 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,256 (14.69%) Analyst
2 952 (11.14%) Senior
3 930 (10.88%) Lead
4 864 (10.11%) Developer
5 803 (9.39%) Architect
6 639 (7.47%) Business Analyst
7 620 (7.25%) Project Manager
8 545 (6.38%) Consultant
9 301 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
10 293 (3.43%) Data Engineer
11 219 (2.56%) Senior Manager
12 201 (2.35%) Financial Analyst
13 184 (2.15%) Java Developer
14 183 (2.14%) Accountant
15 178 (2.08%) Data Analyst
16 168 (1.97%) IT Manager
17 166 (1.94%) Programme Manager
18 165 (1.93%) Software Engineer
19 160 (1.87%) Finance Manager
20 158 (1.85%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (3.13%) REST
2 255 (2.98%) .NET
3 253 (2.96%) React
4 236 (2.76%) Kafka
5 189 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 180 (2.11%) Middleware
7 161 (1.88%) Spring
8 150 (1.75%) Spring Boot
9 121 (1.42%) RESTful
10 110 (1.29%) Redux
11 109 (1.28%) PySpark
12 107 (1.25%) Node.js
13 85 (0.99%) AngularJS
14 80 (0.94%) JSON
15 78 (0.91%) OAuth
16 69 (0.81%) XML
17 61 (0.71%) CSS
18 59 (0.69%) .NET Framework
19 58 (0.68%) HTML
19 58 (0.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 416 (4.87%) Onboarding
2 379 (4.43%) Product Ownership
3 362 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 242 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 209 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 193 (2.26%) Data Structures
7 164 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 163 (1.91%) Fixed Income
9 159 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
10 157 (1.84%) Derivative
11 148 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
12 142 (1.66%) Data Centre
13 137 (1.60%) Virtual Team
14 117 (1.37%) Equities
15 116 (1.36%) AI Agents
16 114 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
17 103 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
18 101 (1.18%) Public Cloud
19 99 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
20 93 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 295 (3.45%) Windows
2 261 (3.05%) Linux
3 144 (1.68%) Unix
4 66 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 38 (0.44%) Solaris
6 35 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 34 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 33 (0.39%) Windows 10
9 31 (0.36%) zOS
10 29 (0.34%) Android
11 26 (0.30%) Mac OS
12 18 (0.21%) AIX
13 9 (0.11%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
14 8 (0.094%) VMS
15 6 (0.070%) HPUX
15 6 (0.070%) SUSE
16 5 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.047%) MVS
18 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,873 (21.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,764 (20.63%) Agile
3 1,201 (14.05%) Migration
4 1,118 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
5 1,015 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 972 (11.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 935 (10.94%) AI
8 918 (10.74%) DevOps
9 894 (10.46%) CI/CD
10 861 (10.07%) Analytics
11 839 (9.81%) ERP
12 794 (9.29%) Decision-Making
13 734 (8.59%) Roadmaps
14 728 (8.52%) Validation
15 707 (8.27%) Data Modelling
16 698 (8.16%) Project Management
17 661 (7.73%) User Acceptance Testing
18 636 (7.44%) Change Management
19 617 (7.22%) Business Intelligence
20 556 (6.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,166 (13.64%) SQL
2 1,037 (12.13%) Python
3 580 (6.78%) Java
4 359 (4.20%) C#
5 251 (2.94%) TypeScript
6 240 (2.81%) JavaScript
7 204 (2.39%) PowerShell
8 84 (0.98%) Bash
9 81 (0.95%) PL/SQL
10 71 (0.83%) Go
11 70 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 69 (0.81%) C++
13 61 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 57 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 50 (0.58%) VBA
16 46 (0.54%) Scala
17 39 (0.46%) Bicep
18 34 (0.40%) Apex Code
19 33 (0.39%) Kotlin
20 25 (0.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 682 (7.98%) Security Cleared
2 675 (7.90%) Degree
3 489 (5.72%) SC Cleared
4 215 (2.51%) PMP
5 195 (2.28%) ACCA
6 188 (2.20%) PMI Certification
7 173 (2.02%) CIMA
8 161 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 147 (1.72%) CISSP
10 122 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 101 (1.18%) DV Cleared
12 87 (1.02%) Azure Certification
13 82 (0.96%) CISM
14 78 (0.91%) Master's Degree
15 65 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
16 53 (0.62%) AWS Certification
17 46 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
18 41 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 37 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 33 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 537 (6.28%) Data Quality
2 368 (4.30%) QA
3 320 (3.74%) PMO
4 275 (3.22%) GDPR
5 156 (1.82%) NIST
6 126 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 106 (1.24%) IFRS
8 100 (1.17%) SLA
9 94 (1.10%) Accessibility
10 93 (1.09%) GRC
11 78 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 59 (0.69%) GAAP
13 58 (0.68%) ISO 20022
14 55 (0.64%) PCI DSS
15 39 (0.46%) SEPA
16 36 (0.42%) Solvency II
17 34 (0.40%) NCSC
18 30 (0.35%) PSD2
19 28 (0.33%) SOC 2
20 24 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 256 (2.99%) Docker
2 188 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 58 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.30%) vSphere
6 19 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.19%) RACF
7 16 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.16%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.15%) NFS
10 11 (0.13%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.070%) GPFS
11 6 (0.070%) KVM
12 5 (0.058%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.047%) IAG
13 4 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.035%) ACF2
14 3 (0.035%) GridGain
14 3 (0.035%) SRDF
15 2 (0.023%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 380 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 274 (3.21%) Terraform
3 142 (1.66%) Ansible
4 83 (0.97%) Grafana
5 73 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 63 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 49 (0.57%) SCCM
8 48 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (0.30%) Control-M
10 17 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 17 (0.20%) vRealize
11 14 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.16%) Nessus
12 13 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (0.15%) Argo
12 13 (0.15%) OMEGAMON
13 11 (0.13%) CASB
13 11 (0.13%) Puppet
14 10 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,114 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 711 (8.32%) Oracle
3 661 (7.73%) SAP
4 311 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 264 (3.09%) Databricks
6 209 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 185 (2.16%) Google
8 129 (1.51%) Workday
9 119 (1.39%) VMware
10 113 (1.32%) Splunk
11 111 (1.30%) IBM
12 95 (1.11%) Cisco
13 92 (1.08%) CyberArk
14 61 (0.71%) Citrix
15 60 (0.70%) OpenAI
16 55 (0.64%) Bloomberg
17 54 (0.63%) Ariba
17 54 (0.63%) Sage
18 49 (0.57%) Informatica
19 48 (0.56%) Murex